The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsKrapp and Dobbie, Columbia University Press 1939-42

Vol. 1 The Junius Manuscript

Vol. 2 The Vercelli Book

Vol. 3 The Exeter Book

Vol. 4 Beowulf and Judith

Vol. 5 Paris Psalter and Boethius

Vol. 6 The Minor PoemsPaleography: all c.1000, or second half of 10th

cent.

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsKrapp and Dobbie, Columbia University Press 1939-42

Vol. 1 The Junius Manuscript• Bodleian Junius XI

• 116 folios

• Sometimes called the Cædmon Manuscript

• Franciscus Junius, first publisher 1655

• Genesis A, Geneis B, Exodus, Daniel, Christ and Satan

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsKrapp and Dobbie, Columbia University Press 1939-42

Vol. 2 The Vercelli Book• Chapter Library of the Cathedral in Vercelli,

Northern Italy, Cod. CXVII

• 136 folios

• 23 prose homilies + prose life of St. Guðlác.

• Six poems: Andreas, Fates of the Apostles, Soul and Body I, Homeletic Fragment I, Dream of the Rood, Elene.

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsKrapp and Dobbie, Columbia University Press 1939-42

Vol. 3 The Exeter Book• Codex Exoniensis in the Lilbrary of Exeter

Cathedral• Donated to the Library by Leofric Bishop of

Exeter in 1072• .i. micel englisc boc be gehwylcum þingum on

leoðwisan geworht• 131 folios• incl Deor, Wulf, Wanderer, Seafarer

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsKrapp and Dobbie, Columbia University Press 1939-42

Vol. 4 Beowulf and Judith• MS Cotton Vitelius Axv of the British

Museum.

• 2 manuscripts bound together, 116 folios

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsKrapp and Dobbie, Columbia University Press 1939-42

Vol. 5 Paris Psalter and Boethius• Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris Fonds Latin

8824

• 186 folios

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsKrapp and Dobbie, Columbia University Press 1939-42

Vol. 6 The Minor Poems• some 40 poems from various manuscrirpts

• incl Finnsburgh, Maldon, text of the Ruthwell Cross

The Anglo-Saxon Poetic RecordsKrapp and Dobbie, Columbia University Press 1939-42

Downloadable from OUCS:

http://ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/3009

The complete OTA Old English corpus is available at http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/desc/0163

Dream of the Rood from the Vercelli Book

Hwæt ic swefna cyst secgan wille hæt mege metteto midre niht syþðan reord berend reste wunedon.þuhte me þæt ic ge sawe syllicre treow onlyftlædan leohte bewunden bearme beorhtost eal þætbeacen wæs be goten mid golde gimmas stodon fægereæt foldan sceatum. swylce þær fife wæron uppeonþan eaxle ge spanne be heoldon þær engel dryhtnes ealle fægere þurh forð ge sceaft newæs ðær hurufracodes gealga.

From Bruce Dickens and Alan Ross:

A good website:http://www.flsouthern.edu/academics/eng/abruce/rood/home.htm